City of London planners have approved PLP Architecture’s proposals to redevelop a postwar office building on the Square Mile’s eastern fringe, replacing it with a new 13-storey structure targeting a BREEAM “outstanding” rating.

The practice’s designs for German developer Patrizia will deliver 23,603sq m of new office space at 30-33 Minories, which is next door to PLP’s grade II-listed Ibex House base. The City of London said the scheme would result in a 14,000sq m uplift of office space. Ground-floor uses at the new building will include retail, food and beverage options.

Under the plans, which were approved by members of the City’s Planning Applications Sub-Committee on Friday, the neighbouring Victorian warehouse building Writers House will be refurbished to deliver affordable workspace and a “cultural/community facility”. It will include a display of artefacts from the site, which once housed the 13^th century Abbey of St Clare and was part of the wider eastern Roman cemetery hundreds of years earlier.

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